&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp There are 5 different aspect of a web page who's color you can
control. They are the background, the regular text, the unvisited links, the
currently active link and visted links. Of these, the currently active link is
least likely to be used. Even with a slow dial-up modem I rare see the links change
colors.
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp The color codes supplied here are from a collection that I use
for some of my projects. They can be used with any of the objects, not just for
backgrounds.
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp The HTML coding is fairly simple. For the background color use this:
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
This produces a page with a white background because the color code #FFFFFF is the code
for white.
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp To change the text color, use the follow:<body text="#000000">
This produces a page with black text because the color code #000000 is the code
for black.
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp To change the unvisited links color, use the follow:<body link="#00FF00">
This produces a page with blue links because the color code #00FF00 is the code
for blue.
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp To change the active link color, use the follow:<body alink="#DB70DB">
This produces a page with purple links while the link is active
because the color code #DB70DB is the code
for purple.
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp To change the active link color, use the follow:<body vlink="#FF0000">
This produces a page with red visted links
because the color code #FF0000 is the code
for red.

&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp The color code are made up of 3 2-digit codes with each 2 digit
code representing the amount of red, blue or green that makes up the color. The digits
are not base 10 numbers which make them look strange to most people. They are actually
hexidecimal or base 16. So 10 in hexidecimal is 16 in base 10. A color that starts
with 00 has no red and a color that ends in 00 has no blue. A color that starts with
FF has full red and a color with FF as its middle pair of digits has full green.
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp There now several utilities for most computers to determine Netscape
color codes. There are also some other sites which have cgi programs running which can
help in choosing codes. This page was meant to be a cross section of the 16 million codes
now available.

&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Not every browser displays color the same way. For example, Netscape
on Macintosh and Windows will sometimes dither color that make up the background.
The dithering pattern makes text difficult to read. A solution is create with a graphics
program a small square image filled with the color that you want for your background.
Then use Netscape's background comand within the body like so:<body background="red.gif">

&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Remember to place a </body> at the end of your html file.